In Beijing, funeral homes and crematoriums are busy as Covid-19 spreads
BEIJING/SHANGHAI — Hearses bearing the dead lined the driveway to a designated Covid-19 crematorium in the Chinese capital on Saturday (Dec 17) while workers at the city's dozen funeral homes were busier than normal, days after China reversed tight pandemic restrictions. In recent days in Beijing the spread of the highly transmissible Omicron variant has hit services from catering to...